Juneteenth Celebration
Join us on the afternoon of Saturday, June 20 at Maritime Heritage Park to celebrate Juneteenth!
What To Expect:
✨ Live Performances
🍴 Food Trucks & Local Eats
🛍 Variety of Vendors
🎨 Kids Corner (games, activities & fun!)
🎶 Music, dancing & community vibes
🎁 Prizes & giveaways
Visit the Miraculous Eventz website to learn more about this event.
About Juneteenth
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. In 1863, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves living in the Confederate states to be free. The news that slavery was abolished did not reach the deepest parts of the former Confederacy in Galveston, Texas, until more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. It was on June 19, 1865, that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
Juneteenth celebrations are a platform for encouraging the acceptance of diversity and offer an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the sacrifices and challenges enslaved Africans endured to achieve freedom. We celebrate our African-American community members and commit to working together toward equity for all.